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Recent stories in History & Culture: A New Discovery Offers a Glimpse into the World of the Hittites—in Their Own Words; Searching for the Black Sailors Who Perished in the Deadliest U.S. Naval Loss of WWI; The Kid Who Rode Into the Canyonlands and Never Came Back; The 'Taraia Object' Isn’t Amelia Earhart’s Plane. So What Is It?; The Last Stationery Shop in France Keeping a 400-Year-Old Tradition Alive; The Gear That Kept Ocean Maverick Sylvia Earle Afloat; Nathaniel Philbrick's New Book Could Give You Whiplash; How A Generation of Stunt Pilots Thrilled America; The Ancient Romans Had a Strange Ritual After Thunderstorms; The Reconnaissance Plane That Helped Win World War II; A New Way of Looking at a Very Old Skull; 33 Chilean Miners Were Buried Alive. These Are the Tactics That Kept Them Sane.; The Treasures Emerging From Turkey’s Dying Lakes; How the Opium Wars Shaped Old Shanghai; Unlooted Tombs Shed Light on the Incan Empire's Greatest Rivals; Did This Ring Belong to Pontius Pilate?; See the Norman Conquest Unfold in the Bayeux Tapestry, Scene by Scene; How a Colonial Hoard of Gold Ended Up as Buried Treasure; This Synagogue Held One of the Oldest Versions of the Bible in Greek; What Happened to Cleopatra’s Children With Marc Antony?; Can You Draw a T. Rex Correctly?; Captain Jacques Cousteau’s Dangerous Quest to Live Underwater; Researchers Discover Rare Denisovan Bones in a Cave in China; The Ancient Princess Who Crushed Enemies With Her Quick Tongue; A Man Who Lived Through the Norman Conquest Gets a New Face